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By Arun Srivastava Despite the best efforts of his supporters to protect Nitish Kumar’s public image in the face of a vertical decline during last one year due to the serious break down in the law and order in the state, the Bihar chief minister seems to be finally...
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s nearly a trillion-dollar foreign trade seems to be benefiting foreign shippers, shipowners, seafarers and insurance companies more than the local service providers. Foreign vessels are reportedly carrying over 90 percent of Indian cargo. The shipping industry is equipped more with bulk carriers than modern container...
By Nitya Chakraborty Rahul Gandhi completed nine months in office as the Congress President on September 16.This was a period of big challenges for the Congress and despite some small mistakes and a few wrong assessments, Rahul has come out as a stronger leader who can lead the opposition...
By Aditya Aamir ’English’. It denotes a people. It’s also a medium of exchange (yeah, not money) – a language spoken by more than half of the world. English has given voice to billions – status and riches, too. To the lost ship at sea, there’s no stronger emotion...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It’s a stirring tale of conviction, commitment and confidence: a super star scientist’s 24-year battle to redeem a reputation tarnished by false allegations; a fair name besmirched by a frightening concatenation of circumstances. The legal victory connotes a glorious testament to a man’s courage of...
By K Raveendran Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has curtly ruled out any cut in the high excise duty on fuel prices, saying the petrol and diesel price hikes are caused by volatile international prices an, therefore, due to external factors. To add insult to injury, he has criticised the...
By B. Sivaraman The flurry of news on migrant workers’ issues in August-September has implications for policy. First came the strike threat by 7–8 lakh migrant sugarcane workers in Maharashtra, who were demanding doubling of the wages from the present Rs.200 per tonne. Powerloom workers in Surat, including five...
By Harihar Swarup The BJP President, Amit Shah, has claimed that the saffron party will not only increase his party’s tally in 2019 general elections — get more seats than it obtained in 2014 polls — and, thereafter, it will rule India for 50 years. The assertion was made...
Apple has just slashed down the prices of its most of the old iPhone versions globally. In India the iPhone 6s 32GB variant is retagged as Rs. 29,900. The iPhone 6s Plus starts at Rs. 34,900. The flagship phone of 2017, the iPhone X, now is priced tagged Rs....
By Sushil Kutty It is confusing, this democracy so confusing. Take Vijay Mallya, he’s a fugitive. The case against him in the United Kingdom magistrate’s court is for extradition. But questions are asked on “settlement” and his response is always “I want to settle” but on his...
By Emile Schepers With less than three weeks to go until the October 7 national elections, the political situation in Brazil remains extremely unsettled. The jailing of the most popular candidate of the left Lula de Silva has been followed by the serious wounding of the most popular candidate...
By Binoy Viswam The People of India have registered their anger over the most regressive policies of the RSS- BJP government in unequivocal terms. On September 10, the country witnessed it in the form of massive resistance organised by the left and other political parties including the Congress. Though...
By Dr. Arun Mitra Medicine is not a profession but a passion. Patient-doctor relationship is one of mutual trust based on doctors’ devotion to the patient as a human being in totality. Doctor in the past was fully connected to the family of the patient and had continuous information...
Regulatory framework for the over-the-top communication platforms will be reduced. Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is soon to announce it for companies like Skype, Viber and WhatsApp as they drive data consumption on networks. TRAI official said to a daily publication, “We have reduced the scope of that...
By Nitya Chakraborty The controversy over the circumstances under which the bankrupt Kingfisher Airlines owner left for London on March 2, 2016, has now thickened following the fugitive telling newsmen in UK after the latest court hearing that he met the finance minister Arun Jaitley on March 1 and...
By Rahil Nora Chopra There is a new trend of retired IAS and IPS officials of Rajasthan taking to politics and making a successful career of it. With an eye on the post-retirement prospects, many senior officials are said to be trying to get into the good...
By Aditya Aamir The apex court has held that morality under the Constitution is not public morality or the morality of the multitude. Constitutional morality aims for a pluralistic and inclusive society; that even a minuscule part of society may aspire and prefer different things. In the context...
By Anjan Roy This month ten years ago was one of the defining moments of modern day capitalism – In September 2008 the storied investment bank of United States Lehman Brothers went under. The liquidation of Lehman Brothers, virtually the icon of modern day American capitalism, rang the...